Essential Resources believes that a love of lifelong learning will help build an equable and kind world.

To achieve our aspirations, we support our superstars – the teachers and parents who influence and educate young people. Our superstars are busy, smart and inspirational. We partner with expert educators, editors, designers and web developers to create excellent education solutions that help them be the best they can be.

Our resources are strongly grounded in what works in the classroom. Each title support students’ learning through every stage of their secondary education, ensuring they excel and can apply their learning to numerous meaningful contexts as they become analytical thinkers, problem solvers and idea generators, preparing them to succeed in a multinational environment.

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Understanding Feelings

Supporting the mental health of adolescents

Understanding Feelings is all about equipping young people with the self-esteem, resilience and strategies they need to cope with the stresses of our increasingly complex and demanding world. Its straightforward information and authentic activities prompt students to explore their own responses to many of the issues young people face, ranging from hope and happiness to gender identity and sexual feelings to depression, self-harm and suicidal thoughts.

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About the Author

Dee Doherty has been an educator for over 30 years. In this time she has been a primary school teacher, a special needs coordinator, a behaviour specialist for the prestigious Schools’ Support Team, Tower Hamlets in the United Kingdom, a resource teacher of learning and behaviour and an adviser for special education in New Zealand. She completed her masters degree in educational psychology at Massey University in 2004. She is currently Head of Literacy at Spotswood College, New Plymouth, New Zealand.

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Essential Resources believes that a love of lifelong learning will help build an equable and kind world.

To achieve our aspirations, we support our superstars – the teachers and parents who influence and educate young people. Our superstars are busy, smart and inspirational. We partner with expert educators, editors, designers and web developers to create excellent education solutions that help them be the best they can be.

Our resources are strongly grounded in what works in the classroom. Each title support students’ learning through every stage of their secondary education, ensuring they excel and can apply their learning to numerous meaningful contexts as they become analytical thinkers, problem solvers and idea generators, preparing them to succeed in a multinational environment.